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The Temple Of Memory
(Continued from page 7.)
"Amanda" you scream. Amanda!"
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|will add them just the same, though "My momories dol There are all you see is a blurry stain, if you people whom you do not know take it for her." My trick works now, but your memory knows like that. I coax you into opening them. Sacrifices at your shrine!" the pigeon-hole in your mind where "Every belle dame has, but I the Amanda memories live. I sup-shan't tell you of them." ply a vague clue which might lead Then I must try the only one to Amanda. You see-hear-feel you have mentioned. The young ay an old-fashioned dress, and man by the name of Ronald Tem a sigh, and the wistful touch of a ple? Was he a sacrifice?.... Your hand-and your mind supplies the face has answered. Will you enter rest....A charlatan does his qick-the Temple, your ladyship." change trick behind his
screen, I held the curtains aside for her to pass in. She hesitated; bit her and 10--1
"Oh! lip; finally rose and walked to the
No claims will be admitted after curtain; stood there for a moment. There were several people who "You remind me," she said, "of the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after sat in the chair just inside the someone I knew."
the 7th instant, will be subject to doorway that evening; heard She looked at me searchingly.
rent the thick curtain drawn over "Tall and regular features,” I All claims against 'the vessel must it, and found themselves in the suggested softly. "Memory Is bebe presented to the undersigned on.or jdark; fidgeting and gasping a little ginning to work. Will you take before the 16th instant, or they will till a faint clouded light came: that chair?" I pointed within, and not be recognised
All broken, chafed, and damaged peered round a trife fearfully in she entered and sat down. "Goods are to be left in the Godowns, the obscurity; suddenly found ámust ask you to sit still for a few where they will be examined on the by our sur» vague something fix their eyes; moments," I said. "It will be 7th instant, at 10 a.m. stared at it while memory worked; dark for a second or two-ten per-yors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.
In the case of datiable cargo, Con- and then found an Amanda.
hape. Just the stage machinery signees are requested to inform the Blakesby himself found one. He of the trick. You will think of the Imports & Exports Office that they
have such goods for examination. had told me that he wished to see young man "Temple..
No Fire Insurance has been effect- someone he hadn't met for many "I shall think," she told me de- [years; owned to "woman," and fiantly, "of a hand at bridge, which
Blit of Lading will be countersign- little," and "golden-hair," and my partner played very badly."
ed by
DODWELL & CO. LTD. ["big eyes."
"Sometimes we have to think of 1 gave him a white-
Agenta. gowned figure, with a drooping what we would forget." head of golden hair....I drooped I said that from outside the Tem- the hair into the spot where the ple. I was hurrying round to the dim, shaded light that I turn on secret door....The curtains closed is strongest; and his memories....The light went out....There might not live very long. If I told leapt to it....
¡was not much make-up to do. 1 my husband of it..........” "Hester!....Hester, my girl, I had dropped the robe as I erept "He might ask exactly what never meant....That's enough. round the Temple. Now I took know," I said softly. you d-d humbug!"
off my wig and beard. In a faint "There is nothing to know," she
ed.
Hong Kong, ist April, 1982.
"I was a fool to ask to see her,"light I am still-just a possible clus declared.
he told me afterwards, wiping his to my young self. The lines that "But," I whispered, "I lied to you face with his handkerchief "life writes do not show in the dark just now. I am the one who does know you drew me, but I'm hang........Not on the face....Presently know....Ronald Temple!" jed if I know how you got it so near stepped beyond the mirrors; stood She said nothing for some time. ....Most men have something in with despairing, outstretched arms Then she shrugged her shoulders the back-beyond, eh? I am not
and rose.
worse than other people. It is an "Eva" I cried, in the voice "And I defy Ronald Temple f" infernally clever trick, and you which used to be mine. "I shall she told me. "If you are Ronald don't give your clients away, of go to the devil if you send me away. Temple-conjurer and blackmaller, so.. 1 shall cer- After all that has been between and no doubt worsel-you've a more 9th Apr. course?....Just
tainly recommend you, you know," us."
accusing memory than I, the mem-
I think I must have been in the "Oh,
," the woman in the chatrary of Ronald Temple!" Shé turn. vein that evening. I had never gasped. "Oh!....My God!..It is ed and jeered at me from the door 21st Apr. been so successful with my memor-trick. Let me out of here...... of the gallery; pointed without
ies before. There was an old man You blackguard!"
stretched arm to the entrance to the
who rose and burst open the door She swayed in her chair; Temple. "Go yourself," she cried, curtains, and ran from the Temple put
her hands over her face."and look in there... Such a into the gallery, and then from I switched off the light; passed nice boy you were!".
6th May that. I looked him up on the list, swiftly behind the mirrors and It was not the fear of the hang- and made a note to get his address. through the concealed door. 1 man which, stayed me from taking He should be good for a few hun put on my white wig and my beard, her by the white throat, but that dred, I considered, as the price of as I did that; picked up my robe cursed memory of Ronald Temple; Isilence about something which he and slipped it on as I went round the memory of the three articies of had said to a memory in the tem- to the entrance; w's waiting there, his religion, and his father's before ple. There was an old woman who as if I had never moved, when she him. He told them to me just be- cried, and begged the memory to pushed the curtains aside, and stagfore he died.
on a
woman.
stay her heart and take her away gered out. I helped her to a chair. "Ronnie, boy, there are three with her, wherever it belonged....and she ast there and stared at "Whichever place it is, dear!".... me. There was little in Professor things you'll never do, whatever you She would not believe it was a trick, Wise to call up the memories of come to. Never go back on a pal.
Never lay hande and wanted me to go to her house young Temple!.. that she might have the memory
"I suppose," she said presently. They're law absolute. There's the embodied again; but there
are you have met the man? And he law relative. Never cheat at cards 8th Apr. depths lower than even I have fal has sent you: to blackmail met-unless the others are cheats, too,"
Try it on, and you'll end in gaol." "The man," I lied, "has been dead for many a year."
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Late in the evening Lady Eva 10th Apr. stalked into the gallery like
flushed queen. She sat in, the big armchair outside the temple, look- 9th Apr. |ing at me daringly. 16th Apr. (Sailing 8 p.m.)
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"I am not going to help your trick over much, Professor," ahe declared. "You must guess at my memories."
"There are some memories which every beautiful lady has," I told her. "Every belle dame sans
merci!"
"You told me that you did not know French," she remarked.
She breathed a sigh of relief. "A good job, too," she said. "It we lived in olden times I think you
I have kept the absolute law abso- lutely: and the relative relatively, Three articles kept are better than a broken thirty-nine.
And then Stella Hargraves came. (Continued on Page 11)
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